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While Britain is brought low by rumours of Queen Elizabeth's declining health, celebrated theatre company Lord Westfield's Men undergo their own bitter blow. A vicious feud between players triggers chaos; a rival company launches a fresh production; a strange beauty reduces their leading actor to a lovelorn wreck; and a brutal murder leaves the group of actors reeling. With concerns so fraught, a good performing horses becomes a danger. Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell, familiar with harm control, is the sole man with the wit to keep carefully the company afloat. As the Queen sinks towards fatality, Nicholas starts to discern the associations between the company's misfortunes and the larger shadow falling over England....
